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NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XLIII,
No.
133
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PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
JUNE
B,
1954
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FIVE
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Fan
Flames
WINNIPEG
(CP)-Three
large
office
buildings
and
a
dozen
business
establishments
today
were
destroyed
in
a
fire
which
engulfed
part
of
downtown
Portage
avenue
in
a
liquid
pattern
of
flames.
i
1
Pamsge
was
estimated
at
possibly
In
excess
of
$2,000,000.
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V
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III
(01,1
MI5IA
flVIL
DI.I'KNC'K
authorities
say
their
organisation
Is
in
an
advanced
v!
!;:4.W'1
;
-;v-
I
An"
oms
i)
Shotgun
Blasts
Sink
Danny
Boy
A
fishboat
which
caught
fire
'at
its
moorings
early
this
morning
many
points
in
tne
province
would
be
considered
Rood
targets
by
a
potenti.i.1
enemy,
v
shows
the
fertilizer
division
of
the
giant
plant
of
Consolidated
Mining
and
Smelting
of
Canada
Ltd.,
at
Trail,
where
a
nub
itantiul
part
of
the
Western
world's
non-ferrous
re
uruiinced.
Wind
Hampers
Firefighters
ALERT
BAY,
B.C.
A
strong
west
wind
and
shortage
of
water
Is
hampering
88
men
fighting
a
stubborn
400-acre
forest
fire
on
remote
Harbledown
Island,
near
Alert
Bay.
A
forestry
official
-
described
the
fire
as
"a
tough
show"
and
said
heavy
rain
would
be
needed
to
put
the
blaze
out.
The
fire,
largest
in
the
province
this
year,
started
on
logged
over
land
of
the
Powell
River
yey
Shows
Vancouver,
Edmonton
Not
until
seven
hours
after
the
fire
broke
out
in
the
seven-storey
Time
building
could
firemen
clo.is
it
as
under
control.
From
the
Time
building
nothing
but
a
shell
and
a
pile
of
rubble
the
flames
boiled
in
three
directions
under
a
gale
which
hit
Winnipeg
with
gusts
of
70
miles
an
hour.
Westward
it
spread
to
two
ladies'
wear
shops,
a
cafe
and
A
biHiird
and
bowling
centre.
Eastward
it
Jumped
Hargrave
street
to
sweep
through
Dayton's
department
store,
another
cafe
and
a
finance
company
office.
was
towed
out
into
deeper
water
and
sunk
ntar
the
federal
government
floats
j
by
a
shotgun
blast.-
!
t'iro
Chi'f
Earl
Becker
said
t
Ready
Cities
in
Case
of
Attack
places
of
possible
population
been
done
there
Is
still
so
much
!
tnq
1
tne
Danny
Boy,
a
gillnetter,
evacuation,
perhaps
to
English
to
do.
j
caught
fire
ahout
7
a
m.
when
Company
late
Saturday
night
nliri
have
taken
;lh
stcpn
In
civil
.ila
n
r,
i
n
t.
I
nrlirii
anadian
I'rrss
busi-
(illirrt
ct
informa-..
i
this
planninK
In
a
in
sliiilv.
lie
tells
n
this
slury,
one
of
a
Bay
to
relieve
Vancouver's:
For
Instance,
a
well-placed
j
crowded
west
end;
railways
,
aUwiic
bomb
would
wipe
out
vir-j
would
make
sure
cars
weren't
j
tually
every
major
hospital
in
i
across
traffic
intersections;
oil
,
Vancouver.
I
have
heard
of
no
Northward
it
spread
to
the
four-stnrey
Hinry's
building,
which
and
within
four
hours
had
raced
over
the
400
acres.
houses
a
cleaning
establishment,
companies
would
close
valves
to
j
place
in
Canada
prepared
to
deal
the
office
of
the
Royal
Winnipeg
Ballet,
a
furriers
and
a
cafe.
with
almost
complete
hospital
guard
against
seepage
onto
the
harbor;
and
so
on.
Air
Vice-Marshal
F.
V.
Henkes.
co-ordlnator
for
the
greater
destruction,
although
quite
a
few
have
hospital
disaster
plans.
MaJ.-Oen.
C.
R.
Stein,
provincial
ro-ordinator,.
says
"flexi
Rhee
Assails
US
Program
-
'
SEOUL
!
President
Syng-
Vancouver
target
area,
said
that
on
the
basis
of
a
public
exercise
j
bility"
is
the
key
word
in
British
RAINDROP
OF
DEF.RWOOD,
a
Chesapeake
retriever,
poses
with
the
huge
trophy
she
won
at
the
National
trials
of
the
Open
Amateur
Chesapeake
championship
in
Wisconsin
Rapids,
Wis.,
recently.
Raindrop's
owner,
Phil
Gagnon,
a
-Robbinsdale,
Wis.,
businessman,
has
been
offered
$3,500
for
her.
She
needs
only
one
more
victory
to
qualify
for
the
National
Retrieving
champion-hip
trials
at
St.
Louis
next
November.
last
June,
Vancouver
streets
i
Columbia,
and
the
province
is
In
Destroyed
in
the
main
floor
of
the
Time
building
were
a
musical
supplies
store,
a
men's
clothing
shop
and
a
shoe
store.
FLAMES
JIMP
The
flames
jumped
Portage
avenue
briefly
to
start
a
fire
In
an
upper-floor
window
of
the
eight-storey
T.
Eaton
department
store
but
firemen
were
able
to
check
the
flames
there.
Windows
on
that
side
of
Por-
mnn
Rhee.
tod8y
accused
the
United
States
of
wasting
Kor
ottisi
s
kiii
an:
ft.-.
Iln.sllir-.ss
EillU.r
part
of
Canada
do
il
di:
fence
prepara-,e
llic
best
chance
of
mamr
air
attack?
seiicral
answer
I
rc-hut
question
during
untry
study
was
snada."
the
only
occupant
aboard,
Tom
Ncthery.
was
asleep.
The
ship
was
Immediately
towed
out
into
deeper
water
to
prevent
the
flames
from
spreading
to
the
deck
and
nearby
boats.
The
boat
had
already
been
towed
away
from
the
floak
when
he
Prince
Rupert
fire
depart-ni-nt
arrived.
The
fire
chief
went
out
to
th
burning
craft
aboard
the
Laura
skippered
by
Earl
Batt,
and
put.
a
hole
in
the
Danny
Boy
A'lth
a
charge
of
shot.
The
sinking
vess
1
was
then
nosed
into
.h
illow
water
near
the
federal
government
floats
before
it
set-Jed.
;
The
Darm-y
Buyf
valued'
at
ifcout
$6,000
fished
;for
J.
ft.
Todd
and
Sons,
of
Inverness.
Mr.
Nclhery,
who
managed
to
s.'cape
serious
injury
suffered
singed
hair
and
burns
to
on-arm
and
refused
hospital
"would
clear
like
that"
on
an
alarm
Nevertheless
AVM
Hcakes
said,
with
a
smile,
don't
boost
Vancouver
too
much
for
what
had
an
advanced
stage
of
organization
by
arras.
A
new
protected
provincial
headquarters
has
been
built
"
Vancouver
Island's
Suanich
peninsula.
ean
aid
funds
on
"unnecessary
administrative
expenses"
and
proposed
that
he
take
over
the
U.S.
-
financed
rebuilding
'.
pro
City
Chamber
To
Support
"
U
probably
Cana
The
South
Korean-
president
of
the
major,
cities
t
widest
main,
street
were
.1
.stain
tlu
ri
i
n
n
f
Ifnman
fucttu..
!
"
cracked
hy
the
Intense
-heat.
Extension
of
High
way
16
les
"stand
gauntly
for-anyone
to
see.
with
few
signs
of
recon
struction
or
rehabilitation
des
St.
Lawrence
Hydro
Project-To
Be
Selling
Power
by
1958
NKW
YORK
fi
Power
auth-1
participation
by
the
U.S.
and
oritles
of
New
York
state
and
j
Canada
In
the
St.
Lawrence
sea-Ontario
say
they
hope
to
be
j
way.
'
selling
electricity
from
the
St.
I
Robert
Moses,
chairman
of
the
pre
the
millions
of
dollars
that
iavp
ine
best
chance?
general
answer
was:
and
Edmonton."
arjc
centre
would
you
'ast
chance?
grnrral
answer
was:
Marshal
T.
A.
Law-deft-nce
dlientor
for
0
metropolitan
area,
1
mountainous
task
f
of
three,
Including
impared
with,
say,
-fuli-time
staff
of
29.
supposedly
were
earmarked
for
that
purpose."
"China
received
billions
of
dollars
worth
of
goods
and
materials,
but
most
of
it
was
wasted,"
Rhee
declared
in
an
interview.
"Whoever
may
have
been
responsible,
we
do
not
want
Korea
criticized
as
China
was."
Lawrence
power
project
in
four
New
York
group,
and
chairman-
years.
Robert
Saunders
or
tne
Ontario
Officials
of
the
Power
Author-
commission
said
in
a
statement
itv
of
New
York
and
the
Hydro-1
following
the
meeting
In
New
Electric
Power
Commission
of
i
York
city
that
actual
construe-
with
Bruce
Brown,
MLA,
as
a
possible
second.
Public
Works
Minister
P.
A.
Gagiardi
may
also
attend.
In
olher
business
at
the
meeting,
J.
D.
M-Rae
reported
that
the
North-West
Telephone
Co.,
has
been
engaged
In
trying
to
eliminate
interference
from
Astoria,
Washington,
in
.shlp-to-shore
radio
communications
in
this
area,
and
that
lis
efforts
appear
to
have
been,
successful.
The
interference,
evidently
caused
by
a
"skip"
effect,
has
for
some
time
caused
difficulty
to
U
hing
operations
out
of
Prince
Rupert.'
The
company,
which
recently
took
over
radio-telephone
opera
A
decision
to
support
the
move
for
extending
highway
13
through
McBiidc
to
connect
wita
the
highway
system
of
Alberta
was
made
at
the
monthly
meeting
last
night
of
the
Chamber
of
Commerce.
The
act'on
was
taken
aiteir
a
'ctter
from
the
Smithcrs
and
District
Chamber
of
Commerce
was
read
stressing
the
importance
of
a
conlerence
at
Burns
Lake
on
June
16
whan
the
matter
will
be
discu.sscd.
An
invitation
to
attend
the
meeting
has
been
extended
to
the
Boards
of
Trade
and
Chambers
or
Commerce
of
Prince
Rupert,
Terrace,
Smithcrs,
Burns
Lake,
Vander-hoof,
Prince
George
and
Mc-Bride.
Local
representative
-
at
the
meeting
will
be.
Huso
Kraupner,
Ontario
agreed
on
a
construction
schedule
Monday
a"
few
hours
after
the
last
legal
barrier
Alert
civil
defence
head-
Landings
Down
At
Exchange
il
take
part
on
paper
i
to
the
$000,000,000
project
had
witry-widc
exercise
been
removed
ty
the
United
14-1
5,
but
If
there
Stftcs
Supreme
Court,
lal
strike.
Judging
by
I
The
court
action
also
removed
it
would
be
either
a
the
last
legal
obstacle
to
Joint
Disappearance
Of
Typist
Still
Unsolved
TORONTO
JJ)
The
baffling
case
of
Marion
McDowell,
pretty,
17-year-old
typist
reported
kidnapped
from
a
suburban
lover's
lane
six
months
ago
still
is
unsolved.
Most
persons,
including
her
parents,
believe
she
is
dead.
Police
say
they
are
sure
someone
among
the
hundreds
of
policemen
and
private
citizens
who
took
part
in
the
search
across
Canada
and
the
United
States
would
,
have
spotted
her
If
she
were
alive.
Marion's
parents,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Ross'
McDowell
of
suburban
Scarborough
township,
are
convinced
she
Is
not
alive.
And
police
say
they
are
no
closer
to
solving
the
case
than
they
were
the
night
of
Deed,
1953,
when
the
case
broke.
'
They
say
the
lie
detector
tests
Indicated
that
Jimmy
Wilson,
the
youth
with
Marlon
when
the
unknown
kidnapper
struck,
had
no
part
In
It.
Trio
Handed
Prison
Terms
NEW
WESTMINSTER
B.C.ffi
Justice
was
swift
Monday
for
two
would-be
safecrackers
captured
Sunday
after
a
gunfighi,
with
police.
Gordon
Thompson.
31,
was
sentenced
to
four
years
in
prison
on
a
charge
of
breaking
and
entering
and
carrying
a
concealed
weapon.
John
Micliaelis,
32,
was
sentenced
to
l
luce
years
on
a
similar
rhaie,
and
Bernard
Mcfs-aa?,
25.
who
pleaded
guilty
to
111.:
samp
rharee.
was
remanded
lor
sentence.
A
fourth
memoir
of
the
riatig
Is
in
hospital
suffering
from
a
bullet
wound.
Landings
at
the
Prince
Rupert
Halibut
Exchange
were
down
to
120.000
pounds
today
as
only
four
U.S.
vessels
unloaded
catches
at
prices
of
18
cents
for
me-
wred
glass
or
be
In
;l
area.
.T
headquarters
atla
are
In
the
same
tions
in
northern
and
central
is
'
diums,
17
cents
for
large
and
14.5
B.C.
from
the
government,
Alaskan
j
cents
for
chicken.'
f
also
trying
to
correct
individual
catches
were:
tte-
Interference
which
is
believed
to
tion
on
the
power
project
can
start
"in
a
very
few
weeks."
i
Tl'RNKD
DOWN
APPEAL
J
"It
is
anticipated
that
construction
on
the
cofferdams
will
begin
early
this
summer,"
the
statement
said.
In
a
telephone
interview
from
New
York
with
the
Toronto
Globe
and
Mail,
Saunders
said
the
power
project
will
provide
jobs
for
10,000
Canadians.
The
last
obstacle
to
the
controversial
development
was
cleared
when
the
Supreme
Court
In
Washington
refused
to
act
on
an
appeal
contesting
the
right
of
New
York
state
to
join
with
Ontario
in
building
the
project
The,
appeal
was
launched
by
the
Land
Development
an
d
Beach
Protection
Association,
an
organization
of
property
owners
along
the
American
shore
of
Lake
Ontario,
which
asked
the
country's
highest
tribunal
to
reverse
a
lower
court's
decision.
emanate
from
the
neighborhood
a"ce
I.
30,000
pounds,
mediums
City
Skipper
Picked
Up
By
Coast
Guard
Word
has
been
received
at.
the
20,500,
large
8,000,
chicken
1,500
sold
to
Booth
Fisheries.
Bonanza.
25.000
pounds,
mediums
19,500,
large
i0!,
chicken
1,000
sold
to
Bacon
Fisheries.
Brisk,
45,000
pounds,
mediums
30.500.
large
15.000,
chicken
1.500
sold
to
B.C.
Packers.
Rebecca,
20.000
pounds,
mediums
14.000,
large
4,000,
chicken
2,000
sold
to
B.C.
WEATHER
Forecast
North
coast
region
Cloudy
today
and
Wednesday.
Occasional
light
drizzle
over
the
Queen
Charlottes.
Sunny
periods
both
afternoons.
Little
change
In
temperature.
Light
winds.
Low
tonight
and
high
Wednesday
at
Port
Hardy
45
and
60,
Samixpit
43
and
55,
Prince
Rupert
45
and
62.
Thompson
escaped
from
po!le
custody
in
Vancouver
last
Aoril
fl.
The
foor-year
sentence
Imposed
Monday
'will
be
.served
after
he
completes
a
.seven-year
sentence
for
robbery
Dominion
Fisheries
in
Prlnci-Rupert
that
the
United
States
Coastguard
has
picked
up
the
halibut
boat
P
Doreen
in
Area
2
waters
and
escorted
the
vessel
into
Sitka.
The
P
Doreen.
owned
and
skippered
by
8.
Larsen
was
picked
up
at
6
a.m.
Sunday,
six
hours
after
the
halibut
season
closed
for
Area
2.
Fisheries
officials
say
the
vessel
vrtll
be
turned
over
to
Canadian
authorities
Inter,
and
the
owner
prosecuted.
Policy
Speech
by
Molotov
May
Decide
Indo-China
Talks
and
this
Illustrates
llv
of
drawing
eoin-wen
one
part
of
the
1
mini
her,
Ontario
Is
""I
on
a
hose
and
rpMl
standardization
Well
may,
under
at-"inre
lives
than
al-'her
civil
defence
ae-no
also
has,
In
the
"ai'k.
an
operational
4
highways.
"""I
British
Columbia
ho-c
standardization
Canada,
more
than
"'"is
to
take
civil
de-r'
'if
)resrnt-dy
life,
li0l'e
with
the
federal
1
in
most
respect.i
I
sat
in
with
the
"eouiiiiiltre,
which
'"ilhly
for
three
years
I'H'I
or
Vnnrouvrr
ide,:ii,.n(
rirgnnl-
'M
Mnt
the
harbor
!1S
Plan
and
that,
on
Ending
attack:
'''d
move
t0
dispersal
al
vessels
In
congested
would
shift
to
of
Ketchikan.
In
addition,
it
is
considering
the
installation
of
VIIF
transmitter
facilities-
on
Mount
Hays
instead
of
at
Sand-spit
which
at
first
was
thought
to
be
the
only,
place
that
could
provide
clear
wireless
access
to
all
parts
of
the
local
coastline.
A
Vancouver
guest
at
the
meeting,
Al
Newman,
representing
Union
Steamships,
announced
that
effective
immediately
the
cargo
ship
Island
King
will
leave
Vancouver
Friday
to
reach
Prince
Rupert
on
Monday.
He
said
the
new
schedule
was
arranged
to
meet
requirements
of
Prince
Rupert
merchants.
A
motion
by
BUI
Stone
was
adopted
asking
that
representatives
of
the
Chamber
meet
wUh
city
officials
to
see
If
derelict
cars
around
Prince
Rupert
could
ioe
removed.
Mr.
Stone
termed
the
cars
an
unsightly
blot
on
the
city's
landscape.
Joe
Scott
was
chosen
as
nominee
V
the
executive
of
the
Canadian
.
Chamber
of
Commerce.
Art
Nickerson
was
In
the
chair.
P?
.
.
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A
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By
MAX
HARRELSON
GENEVA
i
Russia's
Foreign
Minister
Molotov
planned
to
make
a
new
bid
for
world
attention
today
with
a
policy
statement
which
could
determine
the
fate
of
the
Indo-China
section
of
the
Geneva
Far
East
conference.
He
was
scheduled
to
speak
at
a
closed-door
but
semi-public
session
of"
the
nine-party
parley
this
afternoon.
The
text
of
his
Mishap
Victim
Flown
Here
From
Stewart
speech
was
expected
to
be
released
for
publication
durtng
or
immediately
after
his
speech.
Though
there
was
no
advance
word
on
what
the
Russian
would
say,
Western
diplomats
generally
believed
hp
would
either:
1
Make
new
proposals
to
make
it
difficult
for
them
to
break
off
the
conference,
or
(2
blast
the
West
for
refusing
to
accept
Communist
proposals
already
advanced
for
a
cease-fire
in
Indo-China.
.
Western
circles
also
believed
that
Molotov's
speech
was
aimed
as
much
at
the
French
National
Assembly
In
Paris
as
at
the
Geneva
delegates.
The
assembly
swung
back
Into
debate
on
Indo-China
today,
with
many
of
the
deputies
highly
critical
of
the
policies
of
Premier
Laniel's
government.
Observers
already
have
conceded
that
unless
some
concrete
progress
at
Oeneva
toward
an
.
Indo-China
peace
can
be
demonstrated,
the
Assembly
may
vote
Lanlel
and
his
ministers
out
of
office
before
the
end
of
the
week.
.
That
,ln
turn,
could
cause
the
Indo-China
conference
to
collapse.
s
A
Stewart
man.
who
was
flown
lo
Prince
Rupert
Sunday,
suffering
from
severe
Injuries
to
the
head
foljowlng
an
automobile
accident
near
Stewart,
is
reported
"doing
well'
by
hospital
officials
this
morning.
Harold
Erleltson
and
an
unidentified
man
were
the
occupants
of
a
car
which
overturned
?
Splits
'quor
Vote
;SD'.
B.C.
(CP)
Rcsl-''
Interior
village
north
of
Trail,
B.C..
r,,(:al
optlon
P'ebis-1
lm
during
the
wcek-
STOWAWAY
GETS
LONG
TRIP
FOR
NOTHING
ON
OR0NSAY
VANCOUVER
Harold
Sllverton
is
a
man
who
has
coriie
a
long
way
on
nothing.
He
stowed
away
on
the
28,000-ton
Oronsay
at
Auckland
May
25
and
although
discovered
five
days
later
was
still
aboard
when
the
liner
arrived
here
Sunday
night.
An
Australian,
Silverton's
Idea
was
to
try
to
find
work
In
Suva,
Fiji,
during
a
nine-hour
stopover.
When
he
couldn't
get
a
job
he
reboarded
the
Oronsay,
continued
mixing
with
the
tourist
class
passengers
and
sleeping
in
a
lifeboat.
.
He
was
discovered
two
days
out
of
Suva
and
spent
the
rest
of
the
voyage
in
the
crews'
quarters.
Ship's
officers
said
he
might
be
taken
back
to
New
Zealand
on
the
return
voyage
Tuesday.
'
i
!V
itlen
Ucal
niarglnsj
while
the
pair
were
en
route
to
r
...
!
"
i
V
wre
dining
rooms
a"d
wine
may
be
t
meals
and
dining
h
1
,
qUor
mav
be
Cocktail
bars
nouses
nn
the
Granduc
Mines
near
Stewart.
The
Injured
man
suffered
multiple
fractures
to
the
face,
Jaw
and
head.
The
other
occupant
was
not
hurt
seriously.
The
Injured
man
was
flown
to
Prince
Rupert
by
the
Granduc
-
i,
ly
44
Pr
eent
of
MUSICAL
ADVISOR
PAUL.
MERTZ
shows
Yma
Sumac
the
score
she
will
sing
in
"Secret
of
the
Incas,"
a
forthcoming
motion
picture
in
which
the
Peruvian
songbird
makes
her
debut.
It
takes
a
king-sized
music
sheet
to
hold
all
the
notes
In
Miss
Sumac's
five-octave
voice
range.
"
oi,eg
4
Mines'
company
plane.